Drugs & Medications

Orange Book (FDA Approved Drug Products)

Get information about drug products approved by FDA based on safety and effectiveness, find patent and exclusivity information, and look up drugs that have the same therapeutic effect.

FDA Purplebook

"The Purple Book database contains information on all FDA-licensed (approved) biological products regulated by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), including licensed biosimilar and interchangeable products, and their reference products."

Browse or search our catalog to see additional titles in Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Access Medicine Drug Monographs

Look up dosing, indications, and adverse reactions for generic and brand-name drugs, with printable patient handouts presented in English and Spanish. Content provided by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)

DailyMed

The National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s DailyMed searchable database provides the most recent labeling submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by companies and currently in use (i.e., "in use" labeling). DailyMed contains labeling for prescription and nonprescription drugs for human and animal use, and for additional products such as medical gases, devices, cosmetics, dietary supplements, and medical foods.

Drug Monographs and Calculators in ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey's drug monographs include information about a drug's description, precautions, adverse reactions, pharmacokinetics, contraindications and more. ClinicalKey also includes drug and dosing calculators to aid in treatment decisions.

LactMed

The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.

Lexidrug

Point-of-care drug information, including dosing, administration, warnings and precautions, as well as clinical content, such as clinical practice guidelines, IV compatibility from Trissel's 2 Clinical Pharmaceutics Database.

Livertox

LiverTox is a resource created by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. It provides up-to-date, unbiased and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, clinical patterns and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications and selected herbal and dietary supplements.

NatMed

Database with online tools and ebooks on dietary supplements, herbal medicines, and complementary and integrative therapies.

PubChem

PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

Access Medicine Drug Monographs

Click Drug Classes in the navigation bar on the left hand side.

DailyMed

To find drug classes in DailyMed, click "Browse Drug Classes" below the search bar.

Lexidrug

To find drug classes in Lexidrug: (1) Click "more clinical tools" in the upper right-hand corner (2) Click "Indexes" (3) Click "Lexi-Drugs" (4) On the left-hand side, click "Pharmacologic/Therapeutic Category"

MeSH: Browse Pharmacological Actions

This link contains a list of all of the pharmacological action categories in MeSH.

MeSH: Search for a drug to find its pharmacological action

To find a specific drug's pharmacological action categories: (1) Enter the drug into the search bar, and click "search" (2) Click the drug of interest from the list of results (3) Scroll down until you see the heading for "Pharmacological Action"

RxClass

This resource provided by the National Library of Medicine allows you to explore class hierarchies and RxNorm drug members associated with each class.

Clinical Key Patient Education

Not limited to medications

Drug, Herbs, & Supplements - on MedlinePlus

From the National Library of Medicine for patients, includes side effects, dosage, special precautions, and more on thousands of prescription, over-the-counter medications, herbs and supplements.

Lexidrug Patient Education

The Patient Education Module provides the capability to print complete patient educational packets with information on medications, conditions, and/or procedures. This information is available in up to 19 languages - all content is in English and Spanish.

NatMed

NatMed includes patient handouts that can be distributed at the point-of-care. When available, you will see links to consumer friendly information in English, Spanish, or French.

ClinPGx

ClinPGx is an NIH-funded resource that provides information about how human genetic variation affects response to medications. We catalog, curate, generate and disseminate knowledge about clinically actionable gene-drug associations and genotype-phenotype relationships. The sections below present the different types of pharmacogenomic information you can find here.

Drugs (FDA)

Contains a variety of information, including, among other things, news, approvals, availability, and compliance relating to FDA regulated drugs.

European Medicines Agency

The mission of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is to foster scientific excellence in the evaluation and supervision of medicines, for the benefit of public and animal health in the European Union (EU).

FDA Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS)

Contains data for human adverse events reported to the FDA by the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare providers and consumers.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert Newsletters

Accessible to all Ascension associates.

National Drug Code Directory

The Drug Listing Act of 1972 requires registered drug establishments to provide the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with a current list of all drugs manufactured, prepared, propagated, compounded, or processed by it for commercial distribution. (See Section 510 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) (21 U.S.C. § 360)). Drug products are identified and reported using a unique, three-segment number, called the National Drug Code (NDC), which serves as a universal product identifier for drugs. FDA publishes the listed NDC numbers and the information submitted as part of the listing information in the NDC Directory which is updated daily.

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